The growing demand for city tourism and tourism-extensive rural regions clearly demonstrates that leisure markets are rearranging their priorities towards better quality and more individualised travel experience or – more generally – towards "postmodern" consumption and production...

Da der Tourismus im Allgemeinen zeitverzögert reagiert, zeigt sich die Verschlechterung der wirtschaftlichen Situation in Europa noch nicht deutlich in den internationalen Tourismusdaten des Jahres 2012. Die derzeitige Lage im österreichischen Tourismus lässt sich so beschreiben, dass sich...

Da der Tourismus im Allgemeinen zeitverzögert reagiert, zeigt sich die Verschlechterung der wirtschaftlichen Situation in Europa noch nicht deutlich in den internationalen Tourismusdaten des Jahres 2012. Die derzeitige Lage im österreichischen Tourismus lässt sich so beschreiben, dass sich...

Tourist demand is subject to considerable variations, a fact which aggravates the development of forecast models of sufficiently adequate accuracy. This study develops models that permit including most if not all factors of influence. To this end, due consideration was given to calendar effects...

This study uses time-series techniques and econometric approaches in order to quantify the effects that organising an EU presidency has on the tourism exports of a country. The approach to explain tourism revenues by a time-series intervention model filters out special effects (data...

This study evaluates the forecasting accuracy of five alternative econometric models in the context of predicting the quarterly international tourism demand in 25 countries or country groupings. Tourism demand is measured in terms of tourist expenditure by inbound international visitors in a...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Austrian tourism industry suffered a series of setbacks, which were caused partly by special factors like German reunification, currency depreciations or the slump in air fares, and partly by substantial structural weaknesses. Many indications suggest that...

The fights in Slovenia and Croatia interrupted some important transport links to South-Eastern-Europe. The decline of Austria's foreign trade with Yugoslavia accelerated. Austria's tourism industry benefitted to some extent from the collapse of tourism in Yugoslavia. Retail and wholesale firms...

The favourable results achieved in Austria's tourism sector in the winter season raised expectations for the summer season, despite a slowdown in economic activity in the OECD countries. The main reasons for the optimistic outlook were the expected positive effects of some special factors, a...